Jose Hermocillo
Jose Hermocillo, senior vice president and managing director of APCO Worldwide’s Sacramento office, is one of California’s leading specialists on public policy communications.
For more than three decades, Mr. Hermocillo has served as an advisor to corporations, labor unions, coalitions, nonprofit organizations, and government officials to help them achieve their policy, legal and political goals. He has played key roles in dozens of successful issue campaigns to reform workers’ compensation, civil justice and public pension systems, as well as the collective bargaining process, political ethics, consumer financial protection, and endangered species protection. Mr. Hermocillo also has served as a political and public affairs consultant to numerous private and public interests helping them generate new revenue sources and helping them build or expand master-planned communities, energy infrastructure, landfills and flood control projects.
After having been a principal in a political and public affairs consulting firm, Mr. Hermocillo helped establish APCO’s Sacramento office in 1996. He also served as a lobbyist for a major public employee union, a policy committee consultant in the California State Senate and a practicing attorney. Mr. Hermocillo is a senior fellow of the Mountain Valley Chapter of the American Leadership Forum and also serves as a director of Sierra Health Foundation and Portland-based Umpqua Bank. In 2008, Mr. Hermocillo was named one of Sacramento Magazine’s “100 Most Powerful and Influential” people. That previous year he was recognized as “Public Affairs Executive of the Year” by PR News, the industry’s leading national publication.
Mr. Hermocillo earned his Bachelor of Arts from Pomona College, where he was recognized with distinction in the government department. He went on to obtain a Juris Doctor from the University of the Pacific’s McGeorge School of Law, where he was named one of two outstanding student advocates of his class in moot court competition. He was admitted to the State Bar of California and received a certificate in trial and appellate advocacy from Hastings College of Law, University of California.
